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[wobbegong]

Southern Comfort & Babycham.

Knocks Cheeky Vimto into a cocked hat.

Been there, done that.

[Moscow Mule]

Knocks Cheeky Vimto into a cocked hat.

Especially since Vimto tastes like month-old placenta blended with cat tulip.

[RichardCranium]

I'd loooove a Babycham... sparkling champagne perry...

Southern Comfort & Babycham.

Knocks Cheeky Vimto into a cocked hat.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Out of curiosity, what (if anything) is the difference between "pear cider" and perry? Is it just that the marketing people assume that the general public are too thick to know what perry is?

Maybe it's an age thing - I asked this very question of Mrs PB when she came in raving about some new Pear Cider - she'd never heard of Perry. It must that she's five years younger (can't be that she's ignorant).

[RichardCranium]

Out of curiosity, what (if anything) is the difference between "pear cider" and perry? Is it just that the marketing people assume that the general public are too thick to know what perry is?

There is no significant difference in the method of making cider and perry, only the fruit ingredient. (Except the pears cannot be windfalls and the apples can, and the apples don't need washing but the pears do if they are mucky.)

It's because only Xeno would order perry in a pub.

[wobbegong]

I think a lot of people are put off cider when they are young by drinking White Lightning and other similar gutrots. Even the standard cider fare (Dry Blackthorn and Woodpecker etc) can be pretty rough when swilled out of a plastic 2 litre bottle.

Stuff like Aspalls, out of the bottle, are the malt whiskies of the cider world, and would appeak to more older folk if they could get over their white lightning memories.

Very true. "White" ciders are just meths for Chavs.

[Sausage Surprise]

Aspalls is lush...also Thatcher's Katy and Henneys. Great on a hot day, ice cold.

[wobbegong]

I don't think there is one, but I'm prepared to be put back in my box if somebody would like to explain the difference.

edit: http://www.camra.org.uk/page.aspx?o=aboutciderandperry

That's right, it's the same thing. I don't think it's a question of trying to fool the public, more one of rebranding it to make it sound a bit more "manly". Your average chap in a boozer is more likely to ask for a pint pear cider than a pint of perry.

[TheBigYinJames]

never found a cider that I liked

I think a lot of people are put off cider when they are young by drinking White Lightning and other similar gutrots. Even the standard cider fare (Dry Blackthorn and Woodpecker etc) can be pretty rough when swilled out of a plastic 2 litre bottle.

Stuff like Aspalls, out of the bottle, are the malt whiskies of the cider world, and would appeak to more older folk if they could get over their white lightning memories.

[Moscow Mule]

Out of curiosity, what (if anything) is the difference between "pear cider" and perry? Is it just that the marketing people assume that the general public are too thick to know what perry is?

I don't think there is one, but I'm prepared to be put back in my box if somebody would like to explain the difference.

edit: http://www.camra.org.uk/page.aspx?o=aboutciderandperry

[oracleslave]

Cider is definitely the thing to drink when out in the sun, very refreshing.

never found a cider that I liked

[TheBigYinJames]

Oh God, I'm with you on that one MM!! Excellent cider (has to be ice cold though). If you can find it, Thatchers Pear cider is very good too, not as sickly as the rash of Pear Ciders that've appeared recently.

Cider is definitely the thing to drink when out in the sun, very refreshing.

[NickFitz]

Oh God, I'm with you on that one MM!! Excellent cider (has to be ice cold though). If you can find it, Thatchers Pear cider is very good too, not as sickly as the rash of Pear Ciders that've appeared recently.

Out of curiosity, what (if anything) is the difference between "pear cider" and perry? Is it just that the marketing people assume that the general public are too thick to know what perry is?

[wobbegong]

... Aspall's Premier Cru been all my life?

Oh God, I'm with you on that one MM!! Excellent cider (has to be ice cold though). If you can find it, Thatchers Pear cider is very good too, not as sickly as the rash of Pear Ciders that've appeared recently.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Yes, brewed up ere in Suffolk, lovely stuff. You should try the Perronelle Blush variety too - dearer but worth the extra.

By a strange coincidence - tried this (the blush) at the weekend - not bad.